On Sunday, March 17, the feast of the Triumph of Orthodoxy, Eastern American Diocesan vicar Bishop Nicholas of Manhattan celebrated Divine Liturgy and led the Rite of Orthodoxy in the Synodal Cathedral of the Sign in New York City

During the first week of Great Lent, March 11-16, the full cycle of divine services was held in Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville, NY.

On the first week of Great Lent, Eastern American Diocesan vicar Bishop Nicholas of Manhattan performed archpastoral visits to parishes of the Diocese, and led the lenten services there.

On Tuesday of the first week of Great Lent, March 12, Metropolitan Hilarion of Eastern American & New York paid an archpastoral visit to Holy Dormition Convent "Novo-Diveevo" in Nanuet, NY.

On Saturday, March 16, Great Lenten services were held at the Synodal Cathedral of the Sign in New York City.

March 16, the Saturday of the Holy Great-Martyr Theodore the Tyro, marks eleven years since the repose of the ever-memorable Metropolitan Laurus – the fifth First Hierarch of the Russian Church Abroad. In the parishes and monasteries of the Eastern American Diocese, the clergy and faithful prayed for the repose of his radiant soul.

The decision to canonize the Russian martyrs of the 20th century was made in principle by the Council of Bishops in 1971 when, in response to a multitude of appeals by parishes abroad, and clergy and faithful in the USSR, the bishops of ROCOR adopted a resolution stating, "The Council of Bishops kneels in piety before the holy struggle of the Russian New Martyrs and consents to their glorification."

September in Moscow was uncharacteristically sunny and warm. Archimandrite Roman (Krassovsky) of Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville, NY – one of 34 members of a delegation from the Russian Church Abroad accompanying the Kursk Root Icon to Russia in 2009...

This fall, I got to visit the American South for the second time in my life. Last year, I was in the Greater Atlanta Area, and this time I was in the parish of St. Nektarios of Pentapolis in Lenoir City, TN.

With our blessing and within the framework of the current program "School Piggy Bank," for the fourth year in a row, St. Prince Vladimir Youth Association, alongside with the Synodal Youth Department, is organizing financial assistance for children with special needs...

The Synodal Summer School of Liturgical Music will be holding its annual session at Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville, NY from July 14-27, 2019.

With the blessing of His Eminence, Metropolitan Hilarion, the Icon of the Mother of God "Softener of Evil Hearts" will remain in the Eastern American Diocese until April 30. The Icon’s visitation schedule is available to our readers...

This year, His Eminence Hilarion, Metropolitan of Eastern America & New York, First Hierarch of the Russian Church Abroad, will lead a pilgrimage to the holy sites of Russia. Further information and a visitation schedule is available in PDF format here: